Harish Chandra (raja) explained

Raja
Harish Chandra Rai
Succession:Chief of the Chakma Circle
Predecessor:Kalindi Rani
Successor:Bhuvan Mohan Roy
Birth Date:c. 1841
Birth Place:Chittagong Hill Tracts, British India
Spouse:Shourindri Dewan
Issue:

Raja Harish Chandra Rai (c. 18411885) was the 47th Raja of the Chakma Circle.

Biography

He was the grandson of Raja Dharam Bux Khan through his daughter born of his third Rani.

He married Rani Shourindri Dewan of the Larma Goza (Clan or Sept).

His grandmother, Kalindi Rani, assisted in supplying coolie transport for the Lushai Expedition of 1871–72. In recognition of this service, the government of British India vested Harish Chandra with the title of Rao Bahadur. At her death in 1873, he became chief of the Chakmas, and the title of Raja was conferred on him the next year.[1] According to ethnographer J. P. Mills, Harish Chandra's "drunkenness, incompetency and contumacy" rendered him so ineffective a ruler that it became necessary to depose him in April 1884.[2] He died in 1885.

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Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hutchinson, R. H. Sneyd . 1907 . Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts . Allahabad . Pioneer Press . 25.
  2. Book: Jhala, Angma Dey . 2019 . An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh . Oxford University Press India . 978-0-19-909691-6.